The Sun. — London, England, 1808-09-28 00:00:00

he -ertlered to the ,happy,tnernory,nriFerdtpqna ,14e Vllth, vas his solemn eroclamation. The City cT Madrid, who were particularly anxi ous to dernenct rate their love tor their §overeign, re quested permission of the Suprern& 4unta of Castile to Wear at the ahlhe of pi oclathation the ancient dress 'of the ^ Spaniards, that they m'ght in this• manner record the heroic deeds of our ancestors, and to bag nish from their minds the very name of tiiti'dreis of Frt,nehmen, who had brought 'such misery upon Spain. The Supreme Tribunal, with much satis faLlion, granted their request, and with the procla mation celebrated the evening of the 24th. Edicts were passed and circulated during the day to inform the Public of the time and order in whiCh the carri- I •age 3 engaged in the procession were to pass. Every person revolved in their imagination, exalted with joy and delight, the manner in which so festive a day was io be solemnized. • The time being arrived, the proces,,ion began to pass through the streets. The houses and public buildings were splendidlY de corated, but our limits do not permit us to give a particular detail of the ornaments. .•Portraits of Fer dinand the Vllth were hung on all the houses. The lonsesphich deserve particular attention were those of the Marquis d'Astorga and Conde Altamira, Standard Bearer or Madrid, who, to avoid disho nourhig him: elf by committing an infamous aet in as a istiog at the proclamation of a oretended King, it2ci from Madrid, thereby setting a shining example of loyalty to all good subjeßs. On the front of his 'envie; were placed four statues, representing Pru- • deace, Justice. Fortitude, and-Teniperance The C!ty of Madrid, who were chiefly interested in the festivities made hi honour of their Sovereign, pre- Served for this day the magnificent triumphal arch which had been erected for the entrance of the vie terious armies of Valencia and Andalusia. The hoese inhabited by Don Florencia Martin, in the street of Platerias, was decorated with great elegance. The house of the Royal Phillipine Company was splendidly Ornamented. In the great entrance was placed a 'arandr,ome portrait or King Ferdinand the Vi--Ith, painted by Don Joseph Cameron, surround ed with laurel. The other houses that attradted much attention were those of the Marquis De Ca rilirty.ift, the Marquis of Moatealegre, the:Conde De :Onate, S:c. It is impossible to give 'an: adequate idea of the beautiful perspeaive exhibited by the streets of Madrid. His Excellency the MarqUis'of Astorga, as the Standard-Bearer of Madrid,. had in vited the 'Grandees of Spain, .the Nobles . of the Officers of i.he Palace, the Councillors of State, the judges of the Tribunals, the Officers of the Ar mies of Valencia and Andalusia, the Inspe6tors and Colonels of the Royal Spanish and Valon Guards, the G•ivernor and Mayor of the Palace, the Secretaries 'ot Dispatches, andanany other persons of distinaion; to attend on horseback, and assist at the solemn ce remony. What gave additional lustre to alie=piah t'ess!on, and joy to the spe6lators, washthe happy circumstance of the presence of SigniorsaDoyle and Whithelini, who were likewise botia - iiivited to perform a funhtien as an acknowledgment for the 'generous fr;endship manifested by the British nation tra,v eats this coontry. Scarcely had the procession began to move, when the people began to express ' their joy with loud shouts and acclamations. Their dresses were highly becoming, giving them an ap pearance of great dignity and gravity. Madrid never was the scone of such happiness ; never did its inha bitants expiess such satisfaCtion, because they naver saw a Monarch proclaimed so beloved as Ferdia nand V/.1. • A party of cavalry led the procession, and were wed by a clayony 'of halberdecrs, with 24 Al orlazds, preceded by the Algunzl Mayor. The iii followed, attended by the maces and ar:IH of ::.ladr.d, the A!catdes of the Brotherhood, the tour Kings at Arms, and a great many other cleiraehes t,f distintlion, and public officers. The people "were astonished at the sight of such grandeur and lAriiiancy, and the horses seemed to participate in the joy and enthusiasm of their riders. The peo plc! tesiitied every demonstratton of joy during the pewassion and ceremony. On the arrival of the Proces , ;;on at the Court of the Palace,' the Chief Standard Bearer, Corregidor, the Regidor Dean, the *Kings at Arms, with the Secretaries of State, as cended a platform vv hick had been prepared for theii reception, xvherein ••as placed a handsome portrait of Ferdinand ;he Vllth. Having arranged them `Felves according to seniority, the. eldest, according to ancient ca-‘tom, spoke in a- loud tone of voice, hileneh; Silencio, Silencio, oid, oid," and :the C ,lel Standard Bearer repeated three times the following words, " Cas,illa, por el Senor Rei Dun Fernando VII. qUe Dios . gatkie." And the four . KI:i T ; at .1 tens tloew a quaatuy of F,c1.1 end silver motley amongst the people, which they had ihao i.hal ter the purrare. Scarcely had tne august namt , of Ferdinand been me.;!ioned, *hen the people with me Voice, from the b atom of their hearts, cried out fr tv6, i 1.1 :ell viva ! and expressed their detertn:h.ition to shed the last drop of ;het: blood in detence of the just rights of their leeh;Olale Sovereign, and the glory of the 1014041. They also saluted the Conde De .A.itamira, and the English Officers, Colonels Doyle and Widir;h 4 htni, and cite words England, Spain, and - Eordivaud, µere continually mixed. The pro eaa.sion went to the Plaza Mayor, the P 1 tzuola de las Lies::alza, ini t .' de la Villa, where the Ptociarn faun it as repeat Ctl oit h the same formalities, and in the Court ut the Pal • Daring the niht 9f the 211 t very brilliant fire work: %.% dis i .iayed on the Prado. On the 27th hno 29th •taeoe- were bull tights. ' One halt of the t-ci are 'was alloitcd to the troops of Valencia anti An who vi , ert• admitted gratuitously. The peo p;.• w.. 0 occupied the other half paid less than the pl.ce oi admission. • • • P LEN J.: I a, AUG. 14. -=—The _French army under the o i tiilltiattd (if 8 -ssivres • returned to this city on 't h.: tin instant, and remained here fie days. They st•ized lebr,ifin of th6•Consolidation Fond, wliiCh' Wa4 cots er but frigu the Treasury they had nA'hitig to'ren, it had been previondy eihausted. '•, - 4itutieted are hOnse of niishal Tordosilles y It „,i r ,. 43 4 63- r , s( 4o l ll•the pooerty of Senior Valcies, !.11c.1 •; Bich there. ' the Town:. .1,011 b t heir 'eti.predaticps ittcfn(feti even to the and .ciliary wurn• by' the. 414itazilc 'They rie4. o if all'the plate of thepratorin.'• Orders o,ett th•ttle centinels to permit no perSOn to .or enter theluyin; and this was done that it . •Uot be kuown yiltetliq the troops anct-,64;.? i riageg mereprOee4ing to Burgos. At 14st, pti the Jodi, about seven in the evening, Gener.ll Lasalles set off in great haste with his cavalry, leaving no l'renchmen ey,ceptrome sick in the hospitals. GERONA, AUG. 21.-4 Letter from the Gc-merel of hivision at Gerona to the General in Chief, me - tions, that in the action of the 16th, one OtEcer and 51 soldiers were taken by the Patriots. It also spe clties very minutely the various military stores which were taken on that occasion. The principal of these were 7 brass cannon, 9 - mortars, 4 howitzers, 11 gun-carriages, 4000 balls, bombs, grenades, 2700 ball cartridges, 200 musquets, 80 quintals of gunpowder, and a quantity of besieging and sealing materials. Yesterday the prisoners which were in this city were marched into the interior of. Spain; among them is the Prince of Salm-Kyntirgh, who before his departure wrote the following Note to the Junta : " SIGNIORS, " Having received orders to march to-morrow into the Interior, permit me to return thanks for the good treatment and attention which I have expe rienced during my continuance in Gerona ; and be lieve, Signiors, that it shall never be effaced from my memory.--1 beg you to accept the assurances of my respeatul regard. " THE PRINCE OF SALM'-KYBURGH." Gerona, August 19." BADAJOZ, AUG. 24 . .---The attacks which the ene my has attempted to Make with small parties, from the garrison of Yelves, and by ambulatory columns, which every day change their position, threatening various points, have had only the same fruits with the same expeditions commanded by Generals Du. pont, Bedel, Moncey, and Lefebvre. The object of the greater part of these incursions was to procure provisions, of which they were in want ; but the troops of our army situated on various points of Por tugal, despising their impotent efliarts and threats, almOst always took from them the provisions of which they plundered the defenceless Portuguese, and made no attack without taking some prisoners. At the sight of a Spanish party of about eighty or 00 horse, with a small detachment of infantry, these wretches retreated to Yelves, though they were 5 or Coo in force. From the sth to the 14th inst. there have been taken from them 1200 fanegas of wheat, 897 of flour, 71 cargoes of wine, and 55 prisoners ; and on the 19th, two waggons full of wounded. Our army is impatient for the combat ; the troops ..advance with the rapidity of lightning to attack the enemy, and the skirmishing of Evora, though the enemy's excessive force made our troops give way, has obliged the Commander to retrain from exposing himself to a new attempt. Every day on which they have the boldness to shew themselves, our guards force them to retire with precipitation, pursuing them to the very palisades of the place where they are in garrison ; and if the wails had not proteaed their disgraceful and daily flight, our chasseurs and hussars would have ere now led prisoners the con querors of Austerlitz, of Jena,. of Eilau, and of Marengo. MADRID, SEPT. 7.—Freed in this capital from the galling yoke which our oppressors had for the space of five months kept us under, weiejoice in the satis fa&ion that Spain is abundantly avenging the un heard-of wrongs endured from the satellites of the Gallic Despot. It may be relied upon, that at the hour I am writing this, their loss amounts to more than two-thirds of their forces in Spain, where up wards of 200,000 men of French troops have enter ed. In their ignominious flight, to which they have every where recourse, they drop spoils ofall descrip. tions,- numbers of dead, dying, and prisoners, and it is hard if the remnant of that numerous host, with their inglorious chief, Joseph Bucnaparte, escape from this country. In every direation the banditti have been foiled and worsted ; ignorance of the mi litary art, and cowardice, are some of the prominent features by which we have learned 'to know them ; scduaion, cunning, hypocrisy, and bribery, are the arms with which they have hitherto triumphed over a credulous world. The charm is over, and the eyes of Europe are open. Of the French Generals, many lie dead on the plains of Spain, a prey to the ravens, and arise that have escaped with life are con signed to ignominy and irrision. The terrorism which they have exercised on the people of this country, the sacrilege and atrocities committed against the altar, and the unoffending and disarmed, so far from intimidating Spaniards, have roused them to re doubled vengeance. SaIIAGOSSA, AUG. 24.--7ExtraEt of a Letter writ ten by his Excellency General Palafox, of the Army of Arragon, to his Excellency Dun Gregorio de la Cuesta "The French army which has besieged this place, and precipitately fled from the pursuit of the troops of this kingdom as tar as Tudela, has with disgrace, abandoned that city; whilst, by finding thus a point of security, I am enabled to establish the general quarters in the centre. I have still to keep an eye to the re-union of the Spanish army to prevent. Navarre, Rioja, Castile, and even Arragon, fromfall ing a prey to the enemy's forces, which I am apt to think will reunite on the left bank of the Ebra, since they have not been able to maintain their ground on this side. I have in consequence to re quest your Excellency to dire& your army at Madrid. towards Soria or Logrono, in order that, at - ling in concert with mine, already reinforced with that of Valencia and the troops I' have been able to em body in Navarre, we may attain the dignified and honourable end of our wishes, which are the salva tion of the country, religion, and rights of our law ful King. " I am advised, that on the 19th a division of 5000 men from the army of Bessieres was to enter Logrono, which no doubt meditates penetrating into Soria, to destroy and plunder all on its way, and even to return to Arragon, joining their forces to 'those of the besiegers of this c4pital and of their pre tender. I flatter myself, that your Excellency will avail yourself of the information, and concur, as far as lies in your power, to avert such pernicious con geg oenCes.'' MAILS. ARRIVZD-1 Dublin. Pus-4.Gottenburgh, z Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS Twis pA Y 4T TVIlf1110C..lecI.00IK• San3ols . . - I orziagi • • - 2i 'XS. .• r• a • t i„ A, 4 We again beg leave.to C.lt the particular attention of our Readers to the valuable Art,ule continued iu THE SUN of this day, as it will enabl:.• mankind fully to appreciate the . Military Character of that man, who has succeeded note by cral . : and good fortune, than by real abilities and know. ledge, in usurping the throne of France, in spreading mi• eery wherever he promised friendship, as well as where he menaced hostility ; and who has so long, by trick and ter ror, kept the Continental Powers in pusillazimous sub. THE SUN. .soLzsi Quits Dicta& FALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 ND 0 N, WEDNESDA'S', SEPTENI3I:II. 28, 1808. The Private Letter which we received from an Pffieer on board Lord COLLINGwOOD'S Fleet, and of which we yesterday communicated some part to our Readers, states, that when Lord COLLINGWOOD, Admiral Putty's, and other British Officers, dined with General MORLA, who was anxious to testify the good understanding that prevailed between the Spanish Government and the English, nothing could exceed the warmth with which the people received our Officers as they passed. Every demonstration of respe6l, esteem, and gratitude, was manifested, and ardent acchumitions attended them wherever they were, seen. After dinner the British Officers were invited to See the Cadiz Volunteers reviewed. They consisted of about three thousand very fine young men, who seemed to be quite expert in the military discipline, and who were evidently animated by the warmest zeal of patriotism and loyalty. Lord COLLINGWOOD was assured that there were four hundred thousand such men as these, ready to join the national standard, and to hazard every thing in defending the independence of their country. if so, the French must soon be driven from the soil which they have so long polluted, and it is hardly proba• ble that their ambitious tyrant will be able to force them to venture again into a country where such genuine loyalty and patriotism, under the guidance of wise and honest Rulers, animates all ranks of the people. WE have received Spanish Papers to the loth inst. They contain some further details of the dreadful atrocities committed by the French in their retreat, particularly at Rio Seco, of which we gave an ac count some time ago, on the authority of a Letter from an English Officer. The Gazette of last night contains an account of the surrender of the Castle of Mongal (an impor tant post commanding the pass in the road from Bar celona to Gerona) to his Majesty's ship Imperieuse, commanded hp Lord CocitaArrt, and a body of Spa nish Militia. Lord COLLINGWOOD, in his letter to the Admiralty, states, that this is one of the many instances in which his Majesty's ships on the eastern coast of Spain have rendered effettual aid to th e Patriot Spaniards, in resisting and driving the ene my out of their country. AN HISTORICAL RECITAL OF THE CAMPAIGN OF EUO• NAPARTE. IN ITALY, IN THE YEARS 1796 AND 1797. Previously to entering into the details of this Ita lian Campaign, m aplaldi gt ' so vaunted by the friends of B UONA - T still ' more by himself, it is necessary to p A R fix our ideas as to the respe&ive forces of the bellige rent powers. If we believe the Historian of whom we have spoken, BUONAPARTE had only 50,000 et feaive men, while he had to combat an aimed force of 280,000. To give an air of probability to this most lying assertion, the writer furnishes us with the folio% ing calculation : The Austrian Army amounted to • - 80,000 men The Sardinian Army (including the Militia) 90,000 The Army of the Pope 30,000 And that of the King of Naples . 80,000 Total - 280,e.z0 On this there is but one observation to make ; namely, that from these two hundred and eighty thousand men, we must begin with retrenching somewhat more than two hundred and twenty thou sand ! And why must this enormous reduction be made ? Because that the Austro-Sardinian Army, with which alone BUONAPARTE had to contend, never consisted of more than fifty-eight thousand men. 'This is a fact which can very easily be proved. The Sardinians amounted to no more than thirty thousand . ; this was the utmost that the King of Sardinia could furnish, as be had already been de prived of those Provinces which bordered upon France. Add to these thirty thousand Sardinians, about twenty-six thousand Austrians, and you will not be far from the cxa6t truth. In vain does the. historian carry the Imperial army to eighty thousand men, since it is a fart, which cannot be disputed, that this army, far from being augmented, was even ntimerous than that which, the. year before, hat been confided to the Baron Da VINs, and, which never consisted of more than thirty. thousand. This it was, which induced the King of Sardinia to press the Anstrian Cabinet incessantly to reinforce its 4tar!au army., lie had sent, the preceding winter, h P 1 two extraordiory couriers to. ba,tcn tLc disp:Ac succours., and both had re!urncd to Turin with a verbal but positive assurance, that consideraille re inforcements were on their march. The same promises had been formally repeated to the Marquis GIIIRARDVZj PiellipOtelltiary of the Em pire at the Sardinian Court. None of them, how ever, were kept-, and the public voice loudly accused the negligence (to speak • tenderly) of the Baron DE TtruouT, who at that period possessed the confi dence of the Emperor. • It is true that the King of Naples bad some auxi liary forces in the Austro-Sardinian army ; but these, at no time, amounted to more than two thousand four hundred knen. Thus, then, we have the two hundred and eighty housand men reduced 'to fifty-eight thousand tour hundred; and thus vanishes all the heroism of 800- NAPAIITE, whom his sycophants labour to impose upon the world as the conqueror of immense armies! For, let us suppose, that he had only fifty-six. thou" sand men, his force was, at least, equal to that of the Allies; and he was stronger 'by many thou sands than ALEXANDER, when he set out for conquest of the world; that ALEXANDER,t° ' 443°113 he has the ignorant vanity, th e impudenc°' to compare himself ! And he had another advau• cage over ALEXANDER,•since his army received COn' tinual reinforcements from home. For this fad' ---- we appeal to the testimony of the inhabitants of the • western coast of Genoa, from Varo to Savona, vibc ) will all declare, that in the winter of 179 b and 1796, there scarcely passed a day in which they did not see large detachments of French troops, quite fresh, march by to join the army of the new etee ral. 'Nor ought this to surprise us. BuotriAPAtt•q was, in'a partiCular manner, the creature of the Di : reaory ; he was their favourite agent, and all the world is but too well convinced that the Dace:tory were not sparing of the blood of Frenchmen ! the reader should be curious to know whence particular affeiajon of the Directory tor .Buot4A• PARTS originated, he may be told in two w ords, that the latter bad rendered the Diretlory au essential service the year before, when, 01 1 th e stla of upon the wretched inhabita oo Oaober, he loaded the 4:11..;;non with grap e " . shot', and fired p Paris, whose blood run in t o r r ents down th e street during: the whole of the night ! Added tothis' BAR-, RAS, the most powerful of the Direet°rs, h a d an obligation of a very peculiar nature to him ; 1 3 Lic u4Am PARTE rescued him from the ennui of a Nv° l.n o tocho u fern t tptheoaeosstsiloetrillnemp,broraebrsyetseddj ac cept i ngioswgsEridapocr d isgracefully of m his hands, as 3 Wi,t. j3 ce E l A e u br kl a A ted ium by ls' i he na Perhaps, too, e • - rectory were willing to shew their gratitude to 1 3 v °- NAplurg for the service which he had rendered t 9 • the Revolution, when, in 1793, he presided at the massacre of the unfortunate Toulonese, blooded atrocity of which no human being but Ilia! self was eier capable - ?t . . However this may be, we now see that Pary c i BUotiAPARTE, who, by a solemn Decree had been banish4d from his country ; •-'• that BUONAPARTE , Who , h,sid been broke, disa , rnied as a terrorist, alter • an instant to tile 'death of ROBESPIERRE, raised in t he rank of General of an army ! What a vast career ambition We will now trace his opens to his E1T1.,1 • with a cold spirdodgyreessleviantiotabiws hnicehwhecohuarssesi,nctheeobfitr4sitnsetd7 to that To &continued.] *lt is proper to remind the admirers-of BcoNAPAR" that there exists, in print, a letter from him to the licre sentatives of the Convention, in which he expresses hi 5s3V4C • joy that ; "be bad spared neither old men, women , nor ebildriS at 144 ":q!. 0 .;" and •• that he had ordered his so/diets t o ,xlertni"' nate with the bayonet and she sword all those whom the cannon had spared !" This letter, which will exist longer perhaps than his friends may wish, is signed Brutus Buotrapat le. "'- believed himself a Roman far having achieved such an en' terprise, and he was only a cannibal and an assassin ! It is a fad attested by authentic and ocular witnes ses ', that BUONAPARTL was driven fram Coisica'by a viol. Decree which banished him for ever: nor was it for one those faults for which youth offers same plea, and %111 a number of praise-worthy actions subsequently Per ibillie ; may perhaps efface. He was banished for a • rim e, for - grievous enormity which deserved death. it was thus 179 z 13u0NAPMR"!L retired to Ajaccio, not as a French grant, but as an Agent of the Republic, laboured to Stir hi's Countrymen, by instilling into them the principles of r cobinism. Ile experienced a re s istance Which he did not Cl '• ped, and for which:he determined to take signal vengeance; And did Ile died it ?On the very day of the -5c cord Fest . o.l of Easter, at eight. in the morning, when the ,pious Communicants were coming out of til e cathedral •.:ditlrch, he ordered a band of cut-thruats , wbofi _hefiacUrltivett for the purpose, and placed in ambush '' .urine the pre&ding night, to fire upon the people ! l udge, it 't possible, of the surprise and terror of the unhappy who suspeOed nothing of the kind ! Numbers were sever wounded, and not a few killed on the spot. All tr ).9e" cumstances aggravated the crime , and ca lled for exelliPylai" t i ri punishment. Nevertheless, B CiN APAR TE CSCd p elt the decree of perpetual banishment and infam y , which wiii unanimously awarded against him. Th i s Decree ex'st: or, the archives of the country. (This estim able writer due perhaps, know, that it is to be found in P e 3 .11 E R, trom the Corsican Records, together w ith a lite,a L rl jote d torward awn signed by the PAPXI, who was then President of the Assembly. Ot they shew sticli indulgence Why tiid not tbe sr o justice then fall on a head guilty, and so acc utse . n • nem! - '